Postmodernism: A Reader

✍ Scribed by Thomas Docherty

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 541
• Edition: 1°
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This reader provides a selection of articles and essays by leading figures in the postmodernism debate.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Postmodernism: An introduction
PART ONE: Founding Propositions
Introduction
1 Answering the Question: What is postmodernism?
2 Note on the Meaning Of ‘Post-’
3 The Entry into Postmodernity: Nietzsche as a turning point
4 Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic Of Late Capitalism
PART TWO: Modernity Complete and Incomplete
Introduction
5 Modernity - An Incomplete Project
6 The Structure of Artistic Revolutions
7 The Last Days Of Liberalism
8 The Fall Of the Legislator
PART THREE: Aesthetic and Cultural Practices
Introduction
9 Toward a Concept Of Postmodernism
10 Introduction to Terpsichore in Sneakers
11 The Photographic Activity Of Postmodernism
12 Postmodernism in the Visual Arts: A question Of ends
13 The Evil Demon of Images and The Precession Of Simulacra
14 The City Of Robots
15 Against Intellectual Complexity in Music
PART FOUR: Crisis in the Avant-Garde
Introduction
16 The Search for Tradition: Avant-garde and postmodernism in the 1970s
17 The Negation of the Autonomy Of Art by the Avant-Garde
18 The Sublime and the Avant-Garde
19 The International Trans-Avant-Garde
PART FIVE: Architecture and Urbanicity
Introduction
20 Toward a Critical Regionalism: Six points for an architecture of resistance
21 The Emergent Rules
22 The Duck and the Decorated Shed
23 Postmodern
PART SIX: Politics
Introduction
24 Postmodernist Bourgeois Liberalism
25 Politics and the Limits Of Modernity
26 The Condition Of Post-Marxist Man
27 Toward a Principle Of Evil
PART SEVEN: Feminism
Introduction
28 Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism
29 Feminism and Postmodernism
30 Social Criticism without Philosophy: An encounter between feminism and postmodernism
31 The Demise Of Experience: Fiction as stranger than truth?
PART EIGHT: Periphery and Postmodernism
Introduction
32 Postmodernism or Post-colonialism Today
33 Postmodernism and Periphery
34 Rereading Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies: A response to the ‘postmodern’ condition
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index